She worked until her brain made her stop

My name is Lucy Yu and I'm a proud tryhard.

Yes, yes you are.

So I want to start by talking about the beginnings of this story.

You were working in chemicals before you started, you and me.

Can you tell me what you were doing?

Yeah, I have a history of as being a chemical engineer, and I had worked in a chemical company for a couple years out of college.

I moved every nine months for different roles.

So I was living in Wisconsin, I lived in Boston for a little bit.

And then I wanted to maybe open up my own restaurant.

So as a side gig of working as a supply planner, I worked as a line cook at this restaurant in Boston.

And then I was like, you know, I think you got to be built different to open up a restaurant.

So I ended up moving to New York because I've always wanted to come here.

And I still wanted to work in food.

So I worked in the supply chain for this food DTC company for about three years.

And I was still working full time when I opened up the store.

So I guess I've just been working for a really long time.

Really falls in with the try hard description.

Yes.

I love that you're like, you have to be built different to work in restaurants.

So I opened a bookstore in New York City.

I

know.

Also an incredibly unchilled choice.

yes so all right my first like real question for you is how does one open a bookstore because i think this is a fantasy that a lot of people have i think that like every one of my friends has talked about like oh it would be so cool to open a bookstore one day it's kind of a like sort of post-retirement dream plan um why did you decide to actually do it and what are the literal first steps that you take